Libro dela miseria y breuedad de la vida del hombre : y de sus quatro postrimerias, en lengua mexicana.

by: Juan Bautista, fray, 1555-ca. 1613

Publication date: 1604

Topics: Catholic Church, Franciscans, Catholic Church, CSAIP, Nahuatl language, Indian linguistics, Imprint 1604

Publisher: En Mexico : En la emprenta de Diego Lopez Daualos, y à su costa

Collection: jcbindigenous; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Digitizing sponsor: John Carter Brown Library

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: Nahuatl; Spanish; Latin

Volume: Copy 2

Signatures: pi A-X Y pi²

Text in Nahuatl; preliminary Licencias, Prologo, etc., the Tabla de los tractados y capitulos deste libro and Summario de las materias deste libro in Spanish, Tabla de las auctoridades que en este libro se alegan in Latin

Woodcut device of the Franciscan order on t.p., woodcut ill. of Death with a scythe and text from Eccl. 7 on t.p. verso, escudo de la Orden franciscana on pi4 verso; woodcut decorative initials, head- and tail-pieces

Errata on unsigned leaf pi1 at end; full-page woodcut of Virgin and Child on recto of pi2, blank on verso; these two final leaves not mentioned in Medina and Viñaza bibliographies

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675

Medina, J.T. México

Viñaza. Bib. lenguas indigenas de America

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John Carter Brown Library has 2 copies; copy 1 is imperfect, lacking signatures B and C, leaves 9-24, which have been supplied in ms., and lacking all after leaf 148; leaf 148 is a variant, lacking signature mark Tiiij, ending with the word "Finis," blank on verso

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 has early ms. notes on verso of final leaf pi2

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 is imperfect, lacking t.p. which has been supplied in ms., preliminary leaves pi2-4, signatures A1.8, Y1,2,3; insect damage with loss of text in signatures A and B

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 in original limp vellum binding; previous owner marked in ink on bottom edge St. Fran.co de Mexico